Funnee 'cos it's true <http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/03/alt-text-3-d-printed/>
To go along with all the nonsense about '3d-printing' a gun like this: <http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/download-this-gun-3d-printed-semi-automatic-fires-over-600-rounds/> No this isn't '3d printing a gun' except in the narrowest legal sense (in that the lower reciever is the bit of a firearm that the ATF considers the 'firearm' part, legally, this is where the serial number goes.) This is '3d printing a housing to hold a bunch of other hardened steel machined parts that actually make the gun work'. This isn't the master assasin John Malkovich meticulously crafting a zip gun in his home workshop <http://homemadedefense.blogspot.com/2010/07/greatest-guns-of-fiction-plastic-gun.html> And yes it's been legal all along to make your own gun for your personal use at home, and the advent of relatively cheap CNC mills have made it as easy to machine in steel or aluminium as printing it in plastic, for a long time now. Talk about manufactured hysteria…<rimshot> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
